New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1982. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features a thirteen-page section of facsimile letters written by Henry mIller (1891-1980), the celebrated American author & artist whose earlier works were an influence & inspiration to the Beat Generation. Written between 1978-1980, these letters & notes are all addressed to Stettner, &..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker Magazine, 1987. First Edition. This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features an excerpt from From CUORE: The Heart Of A Boy by Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908) Italian novelist and journalist; photos by David Brickman; the essay The Heart of a Boy by Henry Miller (1891-1980) the great American author & artist whose earlier works..... More

Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1994. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “You have to realize fairly soon / the illusion attracting you isn’t at all / what you though it was. After that, stick / with what you’ve got. Pretend the illusion again / from time to time. You won’t make it much / better than that. It’s as good as you’re going to do.” So reads “Fealty,” first of a pair..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker Magazine, 1987. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Presented here is issue 35 of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) featuring (as does almost every issue in this series) contributions by Henry Miller (1891-1980). Other contributions include “Prose, Poems and Ink drawings: selected from Stroker back issues, plus new work” from habitual contributor Tommy Trantino (b.1938); a letter from..... More

New York, NY: Stroker, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Dear Irv — Got your lovely water color yesterday. […] Did I tell you my son quit work as my general manager and now has also refused to be an executor of my estate when I die? Gave me a little upset at first — but I made three jolly watercolors anyway. Your latest is a dance, une danse joyeuse, avec..... More

Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1995. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Dear Irving Stettner: / Do you think there is a good reason, perhaps even a better on these days, for artists to flee to Europe in order to do what they feel they must? Why is it that North America seems more and more repressive upon the spirit, turning us into the equivalent of waste-packaging, to be either tossed by the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This "50th Anniversary Issue!" (front cover, first contents page) number of the literary-cultural-art journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features the poem "Where To Put It" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) the cult-favorite Patron Saint-poet of the dive bar & the racetrack (pgs. 3-4; Debritto, B1672, pg. 392). An exhiliratingly exemplary contrarian Jeremiad, each line..... More

Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1997. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “I take a bit of nothing / That has no name, no history / And claim it as my own– / A dirty brown stone, odd-shaped / That in my hand has the weight of beauty, / Not that it’s beautiful / But that I feel / A roundness of perfection / Even where it’s flawed; / The pock-mark of quartz..... More

New York, NY, USA: Thomas Birchard & Irving Stettner, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "...All the efforts you make to change the world around you, comes back on you finally, and you find that it is yourself have changed. We have to live in the world and be of it, and at the same time above it—beyond all antithesis." (Henry Miller, "Letter to James Cooney" pg. 27). This..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1979. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “It makes me feel so good to know there is a comparatively unknown little magazine in the heart of Second Avenue (ghetto to the world) in which I am granted full freedom of speech. It’s also ironic that someone like myself cannot find an outlet in an American magazine of any repute. To be sure, our one-time good mags have..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker Magazine, 1985. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features a beautiful, surrealist ink drawing by Mark Ari; the poem “The Gift” by Allan Kaplan (b. 1932) American writer and author; the poem “On Strokers 10th” by Seymour Krim (1922-1989) American author, editor, and literary critic; “Man Ray–Recollections,” “Advice to a...... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker Magazine, 1982. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Presented here is issue 24 of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) featuring (as does almost every issue in this series) contributions by Henry Miller (1891-1980). Other notable contributors include prison writer Tommy Trantino (b.1938); American editor and literary critic Seymour Krim (1922-1989); Moroccan author, artist and storyteller of the Ait..... More

New York, NY, USA: Thomas Birchard & Irving Stettner, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "..Otherwise, I could live anywhere, even in jail I believe, and be friends with the guard...Because for me, my only enemy is myself." (Henry Miller, "Interview with Georges Belmont", pg. 27). This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features (as does almost every issue..... More